Improvement in stocking-supporters



Patented N0v.4,1873.

` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER C. ADAMS, 0E CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IM PROVEMENT IN STOCKlNG-SUISPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,302, dated November 4, 1873; application iiled September 24, 1873.

composed of shoulder straps or loops a a, and a back connection,77 b, to them, but of pendent stockingsustaining straps B B C C C C', all being arranged as shown. The back connection may be wholly or in part elastic, and

the same may be said with respect to the Stockf ing-sustaining straps.

In the drawing, the back connection is represented as having an elastic band at its middle, and each of the pendent straps B is also represented as composed, in part, of an elastic band, x, connected with its two attachment` straps C C by a buckle, y. The straps C C It consists not only of a `shoulder-brace, A,

may be'elastic or of an inelastic material, and

are provided with buckles zz or other suitable means of fastening them to a stocking.

It will readily be perceived that the new or improved article of manufacture shown in the drawings and herein explained combines the advantages of a shoulder-brace and a stocki'n gsupporter, and is very simple in its construction, rendering entirelyr unnecessary any waist band for sustaining the stockings, and acco1nplishing such by the shoulders of the wearer, thereby avoiding the evils of a-waistband.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, the combined stocking-supporter and shoulder-brace, consisting of the shoulder straps or loops a a, and their back connection b, and pendent stocking-sustaining straps B B C C C C', all arranged as specified.

ALEXANDER. C. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

' R. H. EDDY,

J. R. SNo'w. 

